The man who overcame prejudice and his school's low expectations to become GMP's highest-ranking Asian officer

Mabs Hussain is the son of hard-working Pakistani migrants and - against the odds - has climbed to the higher echelons of Britain's police.His parents are from Pakistan, first generation immigrants into the country, they came in the 1960s.He joined at the aged off 22, in 1996, becoming a beat bobby in the Bradford district of Odsal.At GMP, he really encouraged with the work that has been done to increase the diversity of the workforce and that was one of the reasons that he was attracted to GMP.